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There is a lot of false macho idiocy about bows, higher draw weight does not necessarily mean better archery

Olympic archers shoot 40 to 50lbs usually.

The fun is in the sheer autism of properly tuning a bow, getting the brace height and nock positions perfect for your technique and shooting really tight groups while the meatheads in the club are shooting 20 inch groups with noisy, vibey bows at 70lbs because they think it's better.

It is absurd that we are capable of witnessing a 40,000 year old system of gender oppression begin to dissolve before our eyes yet still see the abolition of a 200 year old economic system as an unrealistic utopia.

so its a 45 min walk to my local shooting club which would be great if i could still walk for that long with out needing the loo ive assembled the bow but havnt strung it as i dont have a stringer and its a little too tough to do by hand. The string it came with is garbage too so im probably going to order a stringer, new string, a riser before i go.

It is absurd that we are capable of witnessing a 40,000 year old system of gender oppression begin to dissolve before our eyes yet still see the abolition of a 200 year old economic system as an unrealistic utopia.

The fun is in the sheer autism of properly tuning a bow, getting the brace height and nock positions perfect for your technique

I am now suddenly interested in taking up Archery.

It's really fun but it's kind of a money pit (I guess not relative to other things but back then it was expensive for me)

If you think about it a bow is much like a single string musical instrument, it has to be tuned or it won't perform well and the limbs hold quite a lot of energy so a badly set up bow will be really nasty to shoot with vibrations going every which way.

I recommend doing some, it's usually very cheap and easy to get started. It just gets expensive when you start setting up your own bow

In England and Wales all game must be taken with firearms, Scotland also but with slightly higher minimum calibre requirements that I don't recall off the top of my head

What's the legal basis, if any, for this? How does the energy from a good bow/crossbow compare to that of a rifle?

Maybe it has something to do with bullets providing consistent performance, while archery is highly dependent on the archer and equipment used.

Hunting with bows is legal in parts of the US is it not? Just because a bullet provides a consistent performance it doesn't mean the shooter will.

I'm not saying the law isn't sensible, just questioning the basis.

It's in the 1963 deer act, guns only. I really have no idea why

Air rifles and falcons are permitted for (some) birds but nothing else

edit for DA LAW:

Spoiler:

3: Unlawful weapons, etc.

(1)Subject to sections 10 and 11 of this Act, if any person—

(a)sets in position any of the following articles, being an article which is of such a nature and so placed as to be calculated to cause bodily injury to any deer corning in contact therewith, that is to say, any trap, snare, or poisoned or stupefying bait; or

(b)uses for the purpose of killing or taking any deer any such article as aforesaid, whether or not of such a nature and so placed as aforesaid, or any net; or

(c)uses for the purpose of injuring or killing or taking any deer—

(i)any firearm or ammunition mentioned in Schedule 2 to this Act;

(ii)any arrow, spear or similar missile ;

(iii)any missile, whether discharged from a firearm or otherwise, carrying or containing any poison, stupefying drug or muscle-relaxing agent,he shall be guilty of an offence.

(2)Subject to the next following subsection, if any person—

(a)discharges any firearm, or projects any missile, from any mechanically propelled vehicle at any deer; or

(b)uses any mechanically propelled vehicle for the purpose of driving deer,he shall be guilty of an offence.

(3)The last foregoing subsection shall not apply to anything done by, or with the written authority of, the occupier of any enclosed land where deer are usually kept in relation to deer on that land.

(4)The Secretary of State may by order amend the said Schedule 2 by adding any firearm or ammunition or by altering the description of, or deleting, any firearm or ammunition mentioned in that Schedule.